I don't know a lot about them, but maybe one of the Rothschilds?? Or hell, it's probably someone the world has never heard of.

I've read several Robert Ludlum books with these exact same main villains - hell bent on world domination through covert political manipulations, monetary/economic manipulations, etc. I always thought they were pretty scary, because they just did what they wanted, and no one paid them any attention, because they were just nice old men. Their plots were always discovered accidentally, and the solution was always the same - dispatch the motherfuckers.

Makes me want to go through my collection and re-read those books...